User talk:Hachiman
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Tip: Categorizing images
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Seems to have several difficulties, starting with the fact that it seems to be based on a modern 50-star flag, rather than a civil-war era U.S. flag. Some might point out that the Confederate flag used was the CSA naval jack, rather than any form of the CSA national flag... AnonMoos (talk) 11:40, 4 February 2012 (UTC)
- Oops! I've uploaded a second attempt, using the confederate 'bloodstained banner' and the contemporary 35 star US flag. I changed the surrounding/ background to black because the large area of white in that flag made it impossible to determine the borders and coastline. Also the flag has been reshaped somewhat to fit the awkward shape of the CSA, specifically the right hand side was elevated to cover the blank region abiove the flag (I opted to center the upper hoist in order to see as much of the design as possible. However this meant that the lower half was not seen. Let me knwo what you think, thanks very much for the feeback! Hachiman (talk) 19:43, 4 February 2012 (UTC)
- There are certain difficulties which perhaps prevent any such map from being completely satisfactory (such as the CSA claims on Arizona and New Mexico, or several competing Union and Confederate state governments), but good job on eliminating anachronisms. And don't worry about "cheating" by moving the relative positions of flag elements -- flag-map image makers do it all the time (e.g. on File:Flag-map of historic Palestine.svg, you shouldn't really be able to see both the disk and the Union jack at that magnification, on File:Flag map of Burma (Myanmar) (1948-1974).svg the stars have been moved to the right -- just to mention images that I've recently uploaded)... AnonMoos (talk) 00:23, 5 February 2012 (UTC)
- Some very slight changes, I made a transparent background and adjusted the positioning slightly. I was hesitant to add Arizona and New Mexico, in the end I just went with the WP map of the confederate states. Hachiman (talk) 22:19, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
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Keφr (keep talk here) 09:27, 13 July 2015 (UTC)
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GPinkerton (talk) 18:44, 20 August 2021 (UTC)
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